Engagement Announcements: Styles Brainstorm

Topic: 
For my storybook I was thinking about writing engagement announcements for famous couples in mythology. When people get engaged now-a-days they normally have a grand story and some like to share it on engagement announcement websites. There are many stories where boy meets girl, they fall in love, they get married. I was going to use the story of Cupid and Psyche , the story of Persephone, and the story of Zeus and Hera. There are so many love stories out there that I just need to find and read, but I am open to suggestions of crazy love stories that would make great engagement stories.
Bibliography: 
1. "Cupid and Psyche" by Ovid, from Metamorphoses (8 AD). Web source: Wikipedia.
2. "Persephone's Fate" by Ovid, from Metamorphoses (8 AD). Web source: Wikipedia.
3. "The Marriage of Zeus and Hera" by Pausanias from Description of Greece. Web Source: Theoi Greek Mythology.
Possible Styles: 
Modern Day. In this style I would talk about the stories as if they happened in 2016. This would be interesting and different, especially because the characters would be gods and goddesses or animals, or mermaid. Also its not very acceptable to marry your sister or kidnap your fiancé. How people fall in love and get married today is much different from how they do in mythology stories so it would be fun to try and change it to make it sound modern.
Males Perspective. These stories would be told in the opposite side of what we normally hear them. So maybe I would tell the story of Persephone in Hades perspective to show the audience his way of thinking throughout the whole kidnapping and what not. This wouldn't always have to be in the males perspective technically. It would just be the side of the story that we do not know.
Fly on the Wall. In this style it would be as if the characters didn't know there was someone else in the room with them. The person (fly) telling the story would just be observing their actions and listening to them talk without really know what is going on. The fly would have funny commentary and maybe reasonable thinking, to kind of put what is going on into perspective as far as how strange greek mythology can be.
Reality TV. These stories would be told as if this was going on in a reality T.V. so there would be breakaways and commentary from the people in the stories. There would be the man and women involved maybe in some stories like "Cupid and Psyche", Venus could pop in and add her thoughts. Other ones friends and family would voice their opinion all while the story is being told.

Zeus and Hera

Week 3: Reading Diary continued: Homers Odyssey

Reading B 

Ghost of Erebus 
Odysseus made the sacrifices upon arrival at the House of Hades and prayed to the god. Around the ship were the ghosts of all the dead and it started to scare Odysseus and his men so they made another sacrifice.
The Ghost of Elpenor and Teiresias
They soon saw Elpenor, who asked them to go back to the house of Circe and burry his body out of respect. Odysseus also saw his mothers ghost who was alive at the time he left his home. Teiresias gave them instruction on what to do on their journey home and Odysseus agreed to doing it, and then asked about how he can talk to his mother.
The Spirit of Anticleia
Odysseus speaks to his mother and asks her about everyone back home. She says they are okay, but heart broken without Odysseus. He asked his mother how she died and she told him that she simply died because she couldn't take the pain of him being gone any longer.
The Ghost of Famous Women 
Odysseus talked to many women who had children with god like Poseidon and Zues or daughter of such gods.
The Ghost of Agamemnon
Agamemnon told the men the story of how he died. He was brutally murdered by his wife and he asked Odysseus if he could tell him if his son is still alive. Odysseus said that there is no way for him to know if he is alive or dead.
The Spirit of Achilles 
Odysseus told Achilles of all the great things his son did for them in battle. All the men he killed and the victories he helped them win.
The Ghost of Ajax
Ajax did not talk to Odysseus because of a battle they had where Odysseus won all of Achilles armor. In the house of Hades Odysseus and his men saw all these other men being tortured for all thier wrong doings while they were alive. The men got scared and got on the boat and started to head home.
The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis 
Odysseus a tied himself to the ship while his men filled their ears with wax as they sailed by the Sirens and their sweet song. The trip through Scylla and Charybdis was not as smooth. They threw them into the ocean from their boats.

Odysseus Tied to his Ship

Week 3: Reading Diary: Homer's Odyssey

Homer’s Odyssey

The Land of the Cyclops

Odysseus and his men are arrived to the land of the Cyclops at night. The Cyclops are aggressive men who live like savage cavemen. There is no law and order, no ploughed fields, markets or ship ports, and they all fend for themselves. The live in caves on the mountain slopes.

Odysseus gathered his men and they went to explore the Cyclops. His crew boards a ship and they found a cave where a monster lived in solitude.

Prisoners of the Cyclops

They went into the cave bringing the sweet wine Odysseus received from the city of Ciconians. Odysseus was hoping for a polite welcoming Cyclops, but instead he ate two of his crew members and then fell asleep. The men knew they had to leave but there was a stone covering the opening only the cyclops could move. 

The Cyclops Defeated 

The men found a club and sharpened it into point to use against the Cyclops. Odysseus got him to drink a lot of the wine he brought and he told the cyclops his name was Nobody. The Cyclops soon fell asleep and at that moment the men stabbed him in the eye with the sharpened club. When he called for help he told his neighbors "Nobody hurt me," and he looked foolish. 

Escape from the Cyclops

The men escaped by attaching themselves to the under bellies of the sheep, and it worked! When they got out Odysseus has to open his big mouth and yell as their escaping which leads to the cyclops throwing a rock and almost hitting them. When they were escaping Odysseus told the cyclops his real name. The cyclops told him that he fulfilled the prophesy that was told to him that he would be blinded by a man named Odysseus. 

The Curse of Polyphemus 

As they were sailing away the Cyclops cursed Odysseus, saying that he won't make it back to his home or if he is destined to then for it to be a horrible trip where he looses his ship and crew and he finds trouble when he arrives home. 

Circe's Magic

Eurylochus and eleven of the men went to Circe's house where she drugged all the men except Eurylochus, changing them into pigs. Eurylochus went back to Odysseus to tell him the news, and Odysseus went to go save them. On his way Hermes gave Odysseus herbs that would keep him safe and instructions that would free his men. 

Circe and her Swine, 1896 by Briton Riviére

The Moly Defeats Circe

The Moly is the plant Hermes gave Odysseus to keep him safe from the drugs, and it worked! Odysseus was able to beat Circe and free his men. 

On Circe's Island

Circe welcomed Odysseus and his men into her house for a very long time where they had endless food and wine. After a While the crew reminded Odysseus he was on a journey home and he asked Circe if they could leave. She agreed but told him that he has to make a stop at the House of Hades to visit a ghost, Theban. Odysseus reminded her no one has ever survived that trip in a black ship. 

The Death of Elpenor

Circe gave Odysseus directions and instructions on what to do when arrives to the House of Hades. As the men were leaving, one of the men, Elpenor, fell off the roof and died. His spirit was sent to the House of Hades, right where his previous crew was headed also.